Let’s face it. If today the victim of an “attempted murder of a former president”, this is the crime being investigated after the gunshots at the rally Trumphad been Joe Biden or any other presidential candidate, the commentary title would have been obvious: “Attack on Democracy.” And then the learned editorial to explain why a few inches further away would have been enough for that bullet that grazed The Donald’s ear to have plunged America into chaos. And perhaps the world.
So: we’ll take care of titling it “Attack on democracy“, although perhaps a more banal “Attack on Trump” would have sufficed. But The Donald, like it or not, represents half of the American electorate and is one of the pillars of this long, troubled democracy.
There will also come a time to understand that what happened tonight is much more serious than the assault on Capitol Hill staged by Trump supporters armed with bull hats. So at least equal indignation is expectedeven if it is not obvious. Indeed: reading the first comments, in the unsaid it almost seems that Trump was asking for it or that he favored the “climate of hatred” that brought us to this point.
The truth is that they created a monster and it was easy, if not conceivable, that sooner or later it could have ended like this. There are “moral instigators”, as he hypothesizes Francis Jubilees? Maybe. Or maybe not. Certainly the context matters in some way, as does that attempt to portray the opposing leader as “an enemy to be defeated at any cost”. Even if it is complicated – if not impossible – to point out this or that individual as “morally responsible” for what happened and ask him for “an examination of conscience”, it is difficult not to notice that only a few days ago Kamala Harris she had hoped never to see Trump behind a microphone again.
Here, the truth is that now we are waiting for intellectuals, right-thinking people and sincere democrats to be put to the test. If they have true respect for democracy and its functioning, today they should condemn without ifs or buts the wicked act of Thomas Matthew Crooks. And above all, consider it in all respects an “attack on democracy”, just as they would have done if one of the leaders of the left had been on that stage. Italian or world.